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- Tue Apr 15, 2025 9:30 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Aquanova Brewing - Hamilton
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1513
Re: Aquanova Brewing - Hamilton
Author John Scalzi is a big proponent of hosting your own website. You can share that widely but if / when the latest social media site dies you still have a home for your stuff. This was especially true when Facebook started extorting content creators to either pay a fee or lose access to a lot of ...
- Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:14 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 160
- Views: 347126
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
That new branding is certainly a thing...
- Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:59 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: 11,000 Threads!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2798
Re: 11,000 Threads!
Huzzah!
- Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:05 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Burdock Brewing
- Replies: 63
- Views: 47636
Re: Burdock Brewing
I was curious if that was some kind of a licensing requirement or if Burdock just decided not to have consumption on site in that space.
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:09 pm
- Forum: Good Pubs, Brewpubs & Beer Bars
- Topic: The Craft Brasserie & Grille - Becoming Fox & John's in 2025
- Replies: 32
- Views: 43085
Re: The Craft Brasserie & Grille - Becoming Fox & John's in 2025
Can anyone else open the link to the menu? Won't load for me.
- Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:56 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Can prices going up due to tariffs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10474
Re: Can prices going up due to tariffs
Part of the problem is if you asked the average person right now if they would pay an extra 5 or 10 cents a can to support a brewery using a Canadian can manufacturer people would cheer it. Six months ago, most people wouldn't have. In fairness, it's not like there is a little sticker on the cans ex...
- Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:58 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 37634
Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Personally I am hopeful that this prompts people to take a closer look at the sources and ethics of all of their purchases, not just alcohol. Not holding my breath on that actually happening, but I am hopeful.
- Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Something in the Water on Dragon's Den
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5432
Re: Something in the Water on Dragon's Den
Looking forward to watching! We are big fans of Dragon's Den.
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:49 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: 2024 Winter Import LCBO Release
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47739
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:36 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Ratebeer shutting down
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12396
Re: Ratebeer shutting down
Bumping this for visibility. If you are a Ratebeer user you have a limited amount of time to export your ratings from the site. FYI.
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:51 pm
- Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
- Topic: Good beers in Africa?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 29442
Re: Good beers in Africa?
Sounds like an amazing trip! What are you taking photos with? I assume an SLR?
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 11:21 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: 100 Acre Brewing, Peterborough
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8510
Re: 100 Acre Brewing, Peterborough
I have been planning a day trip to visit the brewery and the museum for a while now. Clearly the NYT stole my idea 

- Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:42 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Barncat Artisan Ales, Cambridge
- Replies: 297
- Views: 268376
Re: Barncat Artisan Ales, Cambridge
I thought I saw mention of Matt ending up at Sparrow but I could have my facts confused?
- Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Windsor-Essex County Beer Enthusiasts, Unite!
- Replies: 75
- Views: 144880
Re: Windsor-Essex County Beer Enthusiasts, Unite!
Been to several of these a few years ago but many were COVID visits where I was avoiding sitting inside. Cured Craft (Leamington) - Nice-ish spot, we mostly stuck to the patio for our visit. Food was decent, I remember the beer more kindly than my tasting notes do. Top Dog (Ruthven) - Do they have a...
- Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Beer Trading & Private Ordering
- Topic: FT: Breweriana Thread
- Replies: 38
- Views: 72139
Re: FT: Breweriana Thread
Ancient thread but it's as good as any! 
I still have some paper stuff buried in boxes and I just found several Cask Days 2007 coasters while cleaning up if anyone is interested.
Cheers!

I still have some paper stuff buried in boxes and I just found several Cask Days 2007 coasters while cleaning up if anyone is interested.
Cheers!